A question came up tonight about using the AppendResource method from the Midas Rich Text LSX to include an image resource from a different database into the rich text. It so happens that this is available, although not documented, because we added it to Midas before Domino Designer allowed this, when the remote db was only identified in the API and was not documented. I didn't know whether support for this would make it into the final product (this was during ND6 betas), so I didn't document the properties, but ND6 has been out, and has allowed remote image resources, for a long time, so here goes. I will adjust the documentation, but in case you ever wondered, here is how you do it. The script in this case adds the connectionwizard.gif image resource from the local address book. Let me know if you have any questions.

The snow is starting to melt, showing many, many broken limbs and whole trees down. The very heavy snow, combined with leaves to provide surface area, have wrecked significant havoc. Still, the reason I have been quieter has more to do with the many different ducks that all have to get lined up in a neat row before we release CoexEdit and Version 3.50 of the Midas products. Perhaps I'll have to get a guest blogger to present a case file...

I'm a fan of snow and cold weather usually, but at the end of April after the winter with the heaviest snowfall in recorded history in Cleveland, OH, to have more than an additional foot of heavy, wet snow is really a bit much. On the bright side, the list of world temperatures in our newspaper shows that no major city on the list is as cold as we are. Yakutsk, Siberia is close, but not quite as cold, and Reykjavik, Iceland is practically balmy in comparison. Sigh!

They do say it should stop snowing by tomorrow, although it shows no signs of letting up yet.

One of the frequent questions we have gotten about our soon-to-be-released new product CoexEdit is whether it will support the Mac, or whether it can be used if the company has iSeries or Linux or Solaris. The answer to this is Yes and No. If you have CoexEdit running on your Windows or AIX server, you can use it from the Mac, and if you have CoexEdit running on your Windows client (yes, there is an optional client component), then you can handle databases that are on your iSeries or other server. (Of course, if you have a Mac running with an iSeries, you will have to wait for a while until we release a CoexEdit for the Mac or for the iSeries.)

One of the cool things about the CoexEdit implementation is that handles failover very gracefully. The base assumption is that when you save on the web, the server version of CoexEdit will convert the HTML automatically (and silently) to rich text, but if it doesn't, the client will do it for you when you go to open the document. The same can be said in reverse. This means that some early adopters are planning to use both the client and server versions at once, since then the client can then be set to preempt the server, so there is even less load placed on the server than there normally is. It also means that at least one innovative early adopter is looking at exposing rich text edited with Websphere portal to also be edited by a Notes client, using the Notes client to do its on-the-fly translation. Too soon to give feedback on that, but it is interesting how quickly people are looking to push the envelope.

All that said, I would like to say that we would strongly like to support a native Mac CoexEdit client, and plan to start that process next fall, and we hope to have a Linux server version even sooner, although no promises.